Irena Sendler Biography

Irena Sendler

•Although she may not be one of the most famous Holocaust survivors, she was one of the most important. She led about 2,500 children to safety from the horrible Ghetto's conditions. She was never forced to do any of the things she did, yet she still risked her life and almost lost it doing something so important to her.

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•She was born on Feb. 15, 1910 in Warsaw, Poland. She died on May 12, 2008 in Warsaw, Poland due to pneumonia

•Her father was a physician and died from a typhus outbreak when Irena was seven years old

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•Became a social worker at the age of 29.

•She joined the Polish Underground when WWII broke out. (The Polish Underground aided Polish Jews)

•By the time Irena joined the Polish

The children that didn't go into homes with families went to an orphanage or a church.

•In coded form, Irena managed to record all of the children's true identities and their temporary identities. All of the children's true identities were buried in a neighbor's yard, across the street from German barracks, underneath an apple tree.

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•When the war ended, Irena tracked down all of the children that she rescued by using the names and the notes that she wrote on those pieces of paper that she buried. She did this to try to bring the families together again.

•After the war, Irena discovered that most of the parents of the children died.

•Even though the children only knew Irena by her code name, Jolanta, they saw her face in newspapers, gave her a call to say that they recognize her and to say thank you. She said that she got many phone calls like that.

•Even though Irena didn't thin of herself as a hero, many people may disagree. She saved more than 2000 children from the horrible Nazi ghettos. She risked her life for people that she didn't personally know. Irena is too hard on herself, according to historyswomen.com, she said, "I could have done more, this regret will follow me to my